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On Monday 12 November 2001 04:40 pm, Tim Bray wrote: > It seems to me that the *right* solution is that any > interface to an XPointer/XPath implementation needs to have > an argument whereby you pass in internal knowledge of what, > in the target document, the ID attributes are. Because > > (a you'll typically have such knowledge, and > (b) such an override/input could be damn useful in lots of > application scenarios anyhow. My point is that it's unnecessary to do even that if you link to an attribute with a particular value.... again, ID only guarantees unique values in the scope of the document, nothing more. As such, any application that is linking via attributesvalues (ie. ID's), *knows* if they're unique or not, so they don't need to be told. The whole fragment id things is a red-herring compared to the real point here.
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